ARTICLES BY BOB NICKAS
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 MUSIC REVIEWS
MELVINS
Prick
Two albums from the Melvins in the same year. What have we done to deserve...
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  THE HEART & SOUL OF A BAND CALLED PAVEMENT
Now, we all know lots of stuff about that dreamboat Stephen Malkmus. We get it. He’s a lyrical genius, a hugely underrated guitar player, and he’s real cute. We also know enough, for now, about Spiral Stairs, Malkmus’s partner in Pavement leadership. He too can shred far above the usual indie-rock mope, he has a clean-cut...
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 DOUG BIGGERT: PORTRAITS ON THE ROADSIDE
By Bob NickasAt the crossroads where we find a Good Samaritan and an amateur photographer are nearly 500 pictures of hitchhikers he picked up along the way, mostly in Northern California between the early 70s and today. Doug Biggert, having hitched himself in the 60s, has been particularly attuned not only to ho...
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 THE PERVERTED PHOTOGRAPHY OF TORBJØRN RØDLAND
By Bob NickasAlthough Torbjørn Rødland recalls having a camera from the age of 11, as a teenager his passion was drawing. “After doing caricatures and political cartoons for local newspapers,” he says, “I got fed up with communicating easily decodable ideas through images.”...
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 WALTER PFEIFFER
Walter Pfeiffer has been chasing beauty for almost 40 years now, making pictures that are as much a product of his obsessions as of his precision. Maybe it's the sense of Swiss order that has influenced the Zurich-based photographer to set up his scenes, direct his models, and compose his pictures s...
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 GOREFEST 2004
Stitching Together Cinema's Harshest Moments" All you can do is cling to your obsessions.... Construct your own personal mythology out of them.... Follow those obsessions like stepping stones in front of a sleepwalker.... [Because] if you compromise with your own obsessions, that way lies disaster."
-J.G. Ballard ...
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 BEHIND THE LOOKING ASS
Michelle Segre's Land of WonderImagine if Alice in Wonderland had been set somewhere between a drug-addled hippie version of the Arizona desert and Madame Toussaud's. Take one look at Michelle Segre's sculpture and, as if you'd just gone through the looking glass, there you are. An enormous cactus unfolds from a rocky, volcanic p...
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